by John Swain (Author)

"A splendid memoir...a tale, at once tragic and beautiful, of love and loss, of coming of age and of witnessing the end of Indochina as the West had known it for more than a century."--Los Angleles Times Book Review. From the writer immortalized in the Academy Award-winning film The Killing Fields.

Author Biography

Jon Swain has won several British press awards for his reporting at home and abroad, most recently in the Far East, and is on the staff of the Sunday Times.